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Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?/So I'm a Spider, so What?  CV: Aoi Yuuki From the anime website: quote:I, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, LN vol.1 from Yen Press quote:I used to be a normal high school girl but in the blink of an eye, I woke up in a place I've never seen before and-and I was reborn as a spider?! How could something that's nothing more than a tiny spider (that's me) possibly survive in literally the worst dungeon ever? Are there no rules? There should be some rules! Who the hell is responsible for this? SHOW YOUR FACE! https://i.imgur.com/z7MvYUu.mp4 Kumo desu is originally a Light Novel that got adapted into a manga and now an anime. At the top is the main protagonist, "I" or Kumoko. She's a spider. This is a series where nothing bad happens to her and everything is fine Everything is not fine These are some other characters. Who cares.   Talk about the anime here. Probably spoiler LN and Manga stuff that hasn't happened for the time being. 
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MV for the OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqByA3ejOcg Can't wait for the ED MV
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Jan 29, 2021 20:38
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Here to appreciate Aoi Yuuki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwF8q90VWrc
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Jan 29, 2021 21:57
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Thanks for the thread! I think what I love about this series the most is just how every conflict Kumoko ends up in feels appropriate, the stakes are consistently high and no matter what abilities and levels she gains there's always a bigger fish perched up above her waiting to prey on her. It stays exciting and interesting, "How will she untangle herself from this jam this time!?" each week. I'm ultimately happy for the other classmates jarring as it was as a manga reader because they help the pacing a lot I think. Make it less super exciting death defiance all the time. In comparison to other isekais its a very fresh competitor in an oversaturdated subgenre, I'm happy for it.
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Jan 29, 2021 23:51
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I really like the manga and this anime recaptures the characteristics quite well. I totally get why the manga skipped over the story of those classmates though. Electric Phantasm posted:Here to appreciate Aoi Yuuki I actually had to look at her IMDB page because she's drat impressive. Is she just a special case or is it normal for anime voice actors to record more lines in a year than there are seconds in it? I guess it helps if you can somehow cram the complete works of Tolkien into one breath. Also, among hundreds of other roles, she was Tanya the evil, which makes a lot of sense, actually. Also, she did the Japanese dub of Gwen Stacy, which is kinda appropriate. The colors even match. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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Jan 30, 2021 01:55
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Anyone have a translation of the ED?
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Jan 30, 2021 01:59
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Nitrousoxide posted:Anyone have a translation of the ED? It's actually kinda spoilery, because she lists skills that haven't shown up yet, future enemies and she's complaining about D Tamba fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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Jan 30, 2021 02:23
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Tamba posted:It's actually kinda spoilery, because she lists skills that haven't shown up yet, future enemies and ahe's complaining about D I wonder who’ll play them.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:30
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Shame we skipped the Wasps and the explanation of Corrosion (or I guess Rot) from the pill bugs. There's a bunch of exposition that's clearly being skipped, and they definitely should be doing eyecatches with some of Kumo's stats and abilities and skills and stuff.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:44
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Xelkelvos posted:Shame we skipped the Wasps and the explanation of Corrosion (or I guess Rot) from the pill bugs. There's a bunch of exposition that's clearly being skipped, and they definitely should be doing eyecatches with some of Kumo's stats and abilities and skills and stuff. I can see why they skipped it. The wasp encounter, mechanically, is very similar to the monkey one with just waves upon waves of mobs being thwarted by her webs. Though, as folks have said, cutting it out does undermine her motivation for some later actions somewhat.
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Missing the wasp fight is pretty unfortunate because the progression is starting to seem very fast, how many episodes are they intending? It feels to me like they might blaze past the current point in the manga at the rate they're going. My only complaint about this adaption now at this point is how dang fast its going.Xelkelvos posted:Shame we skipped the Wasps and the explanation of Corrosion (or I guess Rot) from the pill bugs. There's a bunch of exposition that's clearly being skipped, and they definitely should be doing eyecatches with some of Kumo's stats and abilities and skills and stuff. Ooooooooooh so that's where it happened.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I actually had to look at her IMDB page because she's drat impressive. Is she just a special case or is it normal for anime voice actors to record more lines in a year than there are seconds in it? I guess it helps if you can somehow cram the complete works of Tolkien into one breath. Also, among hundreds of other roles, she was Tanya the evil, which makes a lot of sense, actually. Also, she did the Japanese dub of Gwen Stacy, which is kinda appropriate. The colors even match.
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Wark Say posted:Aoi Yuuki is so good at her craft that, while she has a fairly recognizable voice, she has enough range to pull an insane amount of types of characters with incredible ease that, much like someone such as Sugita, Sawashiro, or Koyasu, if you're not familiar with whatever source material is getting adapted, you'd be hard pressed to tell what type of character you're gonna get. I remember being pretty impressed with her in the Kino's Journey remake, where she played the lead role as a young adult and as a child, with both voices being distinct enough to tell them apart while clearly being the same person. Also, she was amazing at the Nier Automata dinner show, because she really got big into Nier. It was adorable. (It also seemed to creep Yui Ishikawa out a bit.)
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Jan 30, 2021 04:55
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Go check out volume 2 of the manga, that's where you'll see the cool stuff that episode 4 skipped over.
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Jan 30, 2021 05:21
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I am totally on board with Aoi Yuuki yells for 15 minutes an episode: The Anime  Oh and I guess other stuff happens too occasionally. Pretty sure I've already forgotten the names of every other character in this. And also what they look like too now that I think about it.
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Super Jay Mann posted:I am totally on board with Aoi Yuuki yells for 15 minutes an episode: The Anime I can sort of remember what those losers look like. Mostly because they have the most generic fantasy appearances. Like there's a woman with long red hair, who's really good at fire.
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I can't forget what those losers look like because they're all over the OP and the promo material, but I cannot for the life of me tell you their names or personalities or skills. Also since they don't meet up with the spider for like loving ever I don't know or care why they're even in the show. Yes, yes, the LN split up the chapters that way, but the manga shows you don't have to and the spider narrative stands fine on its own.
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chiasaur11 posted:I remember being pretty impressed with her in the Kino's Journey remake, where she played the lead role as a young adult and as a child, with both voices being distinct enough to tell them apart while clearly being the same person. Her first voice acting role was in the original Kino's Journey, where she only voiced child Kino.
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Episode 4 was the first full Aoi Yuki episode, and I am totally on board with a full episode length of her talking.
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Super Jay Mann posted:I am totally on board with Aoi Yuuki yells for 15 minutes an episode: The Anime The only one I remember is Natsume and that's because he irritated me in episode 3. I know it's dumb to judge characters for not acting logically, but he has a sword why does he keep shooting the dragon with these dumb little fireballs? Edit I also remember Fei because she did a cool pose after violently biting the dragon and she seems to have a connection to Kumoko than anyone else in the class even though it's just school bully who feels bad about what she did now. Electric Phantasm fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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Jan 30, 2021 16:43
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Electric Phantasm posted:The only one I remember is Natsume and that's because he irritated me in episode 3. I know it's dumb to judge characters for not acting logically, but he has a sword why does he keep shooting the dragon with these dumb little fireballs? I imagine because Shun had just shown up his fire magic.
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So a longer video version of the ED is out and... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pQ_sGcNg4&t=166s  I don't know who is responsible for all of this but they deserve a raise.
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I'm really glad they've dropped the literal page long stat block stuff from the LN we got so far. That stuff was annoying and while it does technically contribute to worldbuilding for reasons people who have read further along in the books will know, I really don't think it's worth how obnoxious and story flow breaking they are.
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Edit, actually I'mma go spoiler this to be on the safe side, its just mechanical stuff but might be spoilery since I think this is stuff that hasn't happened yet. I tend to just glance over it in the manga, but what I think they help convey is a sense of "Holy poo poo, this is a baddie" in terms of how powerful someone may or may not be. It becomes more interesting for the viewer in that respect later on, I think the Manga makes good use out of it as basically a "power level" measuring stick. But actually come to think of it I don't think Kumoko's Appraise skill is actually high enough yet for us to have seen these stat-blocks, I think we start seeing them soon? Raenir Salazar fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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I think it happens at this point already, but they might have moved it to later because it reveals a plot important skill and I guess they'll tie it into something the humans do.
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Reminder that it's both in the OP:Xelkelvos posted:Talk about the anime here. Probably spoiler LN and Manga stuff that hasn't happened for the time being. And it's one of the more common guidelines for ADTRW as a whole: Wark Say posted:***
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This episode was the best so far, easily. I legit just skip past the non-Spider parts of the other episodes it's wild how completely, totally by-the-books those parts are.
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I like the human characters part because it’s funny how they are all part of a bog standard isekai story while all this spider stuff is going on. I’ve read the manga so it’s nice to see what the outside world is like since the manga is just now getting to stuff outside the dungeon.
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mdct posted:This episode was the best so far, easily. i've been watching the shun parts because i read the wn, where the dragon girl didn't exist. her inclusion does not make the shun parts any more interesting.
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So did everyone get reincarnated as babies, or did some of them do the whole 15 year old suddenly remembers their past life thing? I ask because it looks like it might be that the spider and other classmates stuff is chronologically out of order. I say that because I have a hunch that the dragon egg she came across is actually the girl who used to bully her. Also because she just hatched last week or whatever while the teacher has already found 11 students and they're all pretty adjusted to their new life.Super Jay Mann posted:I am totally on board with Aoi Yuuki yells for 15 minutes an episode: The Anime I remember the light blue haired girl because everyone else has either a super fantasy noble name or a Japanese name, while she's just Sue. Also I just read a couple chapters of an isekai where the murderously obsessive little sister follows the older brother she obsesses over with the help of ol' truck-kun. So the standby anime brother obsession is triggering bad recent memories.
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Ethiser posted:I like the human characters part because it’s funny how they are all part of a bog standard isekai story while all this spider stuff is going on. I’ve read the manga so it’s nice to see what the outside world is like since the manga is just now getting to stuff outside the dungeon. It is nice for world building imo. Like finding out everyone hears the level up voice and one person seems to liken it to a God or something.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Anyone have a translation of the ED? I was wondering the same thing and found this one. https://www.animesonglyrics.com/kumo-desu-ga-nani-ka/ganbare-kumoko-sans-theme
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The way I see it, they serve the following purpose: 1. They highlight and contrast the difference in situations. Kumoko is a monster spider, and basically starting "from zero", everyone else got to be humans or elves and have safe comfortable new lives. It helps us better emphasize with Kumoko's circumstances and get engaged with her progress. 2. It's actually fairly unique. Usually its just 1 person that gets isekai'd, a whole class (presumably) reincarnating is actually kind of novel and I'm interested to see where it goes. Will it become a Ender's Shadow situation where they become ambitious and compete with each other in this new world? Or do they decide to cooperate? (and to be clear I literally don't know the answer, it's exciting!) 3. They modify the pacing curve.  The scenes with the classmates help us decompress, since Kumoko's scenes are fairly action heavy and way more tense. 4. Considering how utterly alone Kumoko is, we the audience root for her to hopefully reunite eventually to resolve the issue, it presents a clear goal for the audience to want to see these two separate storylines to meet in the middle safe and sound. Gyges posted:So did everyone get reincarnated as babies, or did some of them do the whole 15 year old suddenly remembers their past life thing? I ask because it looks like it might be that the spider and other classmates stuff is chronologically out of order. I say that because I have a hunch that the dragon egg she came across is actually the girl who used to bully her. Also because she just hatched last week or whatever while the teacher has already found 11 students and they're all pretty adjusted to their new life. If true that's some classic fridge horror here  because that was probably a close call. (and I don't know either to be clear)quote:I remember the light blue haired girl because everyone else has either a super fantasy noble name or a Japanese name, while she's just Sue. Also I just read a couple chapters of an isekai where the murderously obsessive little sister follows the older brother she obsesses over with the help of ol' truck-kun. So the standby anime brother obsession is triggering bad recent memories. Which isekai is this out of curiosity?
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Raenir Salazar posted:Which isekai is this out of curiosity? I don't remember. I just came across it, read a couple chapters and then stopped. Given the way isekais are titled now its probably something like "My Obsessive Little Sister Held Me Hostage But Then I Died. Now She's Followed Me To Another World" or something like that. Spoilers for some manga I don't know the name of
I gave it a few chapters based on the general concept of the summary I saw. However since I'm not into Hostel/Saw poo poo, I quit when it became apparent that the story was just going to be a cycle of the MC's sister torturing people to death until he defeats her, and then it starts again.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Like finding out everyone hears the level up voice and one person seems to liken it to a God or something.
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When god says "Experience has reached the required level", what they really mean is that this is the holy land and we must exterminate all heretics.
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Tamba posted:There's a whole religion around this, and she was raised by those guys There's actually kind of a disturbing commentary there if you liken this to the very real dopamine rush a lot of RPGs/gachas try to induce in their players, making them chase that "level up" or "skill up" or 5-star SSR pull over and over again at any cost, monetary or otherwise. On another note, the most striking thing I've been learning while watching this show is that full heals after levelling up is super broken when applied to a situation resembling real life rather than an arbitrary game system. Spider girl should have been dead ten times over if not for that!
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I just realized that Kumoko, voiced by Aoi Yuki, will be a character in Isekai Quartet. This is a Kodakawa property, so it's definitely going to happen. No idea how it will actually work, though, seeing as how she cannot speak. I guess they'll figure something out.
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Maxwell Adams posted:I just realized that Kumoko, voiced by Aoi Yuki, will be a character in Isekai Quartet. This is a Kodakawa property, so it's definitely going to happen. She's already there as Tanya so clearly, it should be an ep where Tanya encounters Kumoko and just be the whole episode of the VA talking to herself.
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Maxwell Adams posted:I just realized that Kumoko, voiced by Aoi Yuki, will be a character in Isekai Quartet. This is a Kodakawa property, so it's definitely going to happen. Or they totally won't bother and it'll just be spider Aoi Yuki talking. Or they won't and they will bother and it will still be spider Aoi Yuki talking but no one can actually hear her or understand her but she'll still be monologuing nonstop. And then she poisons Shield Hero dude to death
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